Add Discord Rich Presence

[Kal-xyz]

Would love if this was also a feature!

[martpie]

I don't know what Discord Rich Presence is, can you elaborate? :)

[Kal-xyz]

It's mostly like a "status". It displays what you are currently doing/playing if you are using the Discord Desktop app. Pretty sure they have a whole documentation about it here: https://discord.com/developers/docs/rich-presence/how-to

[Kal-xyz]

This is what it looks like when if using Spotify (as an example):

[martpie]

This is similar in a way to Last.fm or musicbrainz integrations. It's a bit more complicated than just "let's do it" or "let's not do it". I'll try to summarize my thoughts and findings in a separate common discussion :)

[dipras]

Yeah, i think it's great idea
What do you think should be displayed(title, artist, etc)?

[martpie]

I'll try to keep things short to offer my perspective on the problem: the biggest problem is not the what/how, the biggest problem is authentication with third-party vendors (here, discord) :)

Museeks needs to redirect you to a discord page that will give generate API secrets & tokens, then redirect to Museeks, and store those securely.

This also probably requires Museeks to register itself as an app to Discord, which is additional administrative stuff, and another thing to maintain the day Discord deprecates its API for another one (rich presence is deprecated for example).

This is a slippery slope for a music player aiming at keeping things simple.

This does not mean we won't do it, it's just I am currently evaluating the pros and cost (of development, not financial) of building such a feature.

[Kal-xyz]

Yeah I understand, my point wasn't like "add this instantly". I know that developing this feature will probably be tricky in some ways, as you mentioned the authentication with third-party vendors and that it also has to generate the secrets and tokens. Either way, I don't really mind if it doesn't get added, just wanted to put it as a suggestion so that it might be implemented sometime in the future. 👍

[dipras]

I will try to integrate it with this to provide you with information about the pros and cost, so it could be your consideration to make this feature :)

[Kal-xyz]

Sure, why not

[Serial-ATA]

@martpie If there's still interest in this feature, the discord_presence crate makes it pretty simple to create an rpc client. It's used by mpd-discord-rpc which you can check out for an implementation.